Love Life

The writing of a second celebrity memoir, like the recording of a second album by a musician, poses a delicate dilemma. The first album usually consists of material the artist is familiar with, has practiced often and played to no little acclaim on numerous occasions - his or her "A" material. On the other hand, all too often the second album consists of material the musician has hastily worked up in order to exploit the success of the first one. The drop-off in quality can be (and usually is)

The writing of a second celebrity memoir, like the recording of a second album by a musician, poses a delicate dilemma. The first album usually consists of material the artist is familiar with, has practiced often and played to no little acclaim on numerous occasions - his or her "A" material. On the other hand, all too often the second album consists of material the musician has hastily worked up in order to exploit the success of the first one. The drop-off in quality can be (and usually is)

By Donna Bozzo. Compiled by Wendy Navratil and Cassandra West | July 12, 2000

Life coach Martha Beck believes everyone should love life. And she has made a career out of showing people how. Her strategy is simple. To love your life you need to fill it with the things that really matter to you. "A lot of my clients don't make real change until they're motivated by intense pain; they have to hit bottom to bounce back," she said. "But the key is to begin with small changes. Once you start shifting one or two things, it catches on." Beck suggests women looking to design...

A typical Sunday for Charles Watkins Sr. is spent at church, with donuts, teaching Scripture and listening to his son and namesake play drums in the choir. But this past Sunday, he was instead surrounded by family, mourning the death of 31-year-old Charles Watkins Jr., who the Cook County medical examiner's office determined was accidentally struck and killed by an “L” train early Saturday. “I just don't understand,” the elder Watkins said Sunday in his Austin...

By Dr. Ruth Westheimer, (copyright) 1999 Karola Inc., All Rights Reserved. Distributed by King Features Syndicate | August 27, 1999

Q. I'm 24, married and have two children. My wife is 22 and thinks she is "fat" at 6 feet and 185 pounds. To me she's beautiful in every way, and I love her to death, but her obsession with weight has become a major problem in our lives and is affecting our sex life, too. A. She probably needs some sort of psychological counseling, and if you could get her to go to a psychologist, that would be the best course of action. I assume you have told her how you feel, but...

Not long ago, I watched in horror as the person I have become asked the guy I'd been dating casually for a few months if he saw kids in his near future. "I'm old," I said, attractively. "I want to be on a path to starting a family. " I'm not old. I'm 33. My eggs, on the other hand, are entering their golden years, and on occasion they've driven me to do things that would have mortified my go-with-the-flow 20-something self, like gauge a man's interest in having my babies before we'd broached...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Kirstie Alley described on Wednesday how she fell in love more than 20 years ago with John Travolta, and rejected widespread Hollywood speculation that the "Grease" star is secretly gay. Alley, former star of the 1980s TV comedy "Cheers," told ABC television journalist Barbara Walters that she fell for both Travolta and actor Patrick Swayze in the 1980s, although their romances never got physical. Alley, 61, said she was...

It is a love triangle for the 21st century: a real man, a fake woman and a bunch of Internet impostors. Still, I do not understand the anger directed at Notre Dame senior linebacker Manti Te'o. Whom did he hurt? Yes, it is a bizarre story. As a freshman, Te'o says, he establishes a Facebook relationship with someone he believes is an attractive young woman named Lennay Kekua. He says he falls in love. He never actually sees Lennay, although he speaks to someone he believes to be...

Tarred by scandal over remarks she made to a tabloid reporter posing as an Arab sheik, Queen Elizabeth II's daughter-in-law Sophie--the Countess of Wessex--announced Sunday she would step down as chief executive officer of her public-relations firm. But the former Sophie Rhys-Jones, the wife of Prince Edward, said she wanted to continue to have a professional career. Buckingham Palace said it supported that aspiration but would look into ways to avoid conflicts of interest if...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Grigor Dimitrov's progression from major talent to proven champion suffered another setback after the Bulgarian was unceremoniously dumped out of the Australian Open in the first round on Monday. The 21-year-old, nicknamed "Baby Fed" for possessing a similar playing style to Swiss great Roger Federer, was beaten 6-4 6-2 6-4 by Julien Benneteau, the number 32 seed from France. Dimitrov, tipped to do well in Melbourne after reaching his first ATP...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Grigor Dimitrov's progression from major talent to proven champion suffered another setback after the Bulgarian was unceremoniously dumped out of the Australian Open in the first round on Monday. The 21-year-old, nicknamed "Baby Fed" for possessing a similar playing style to Swiss great Roger Federer, was beaten 6-4 6-2 6-4 by Julien Benneteau, the number 32 seed from France. Dimitrov, tipped to do well in Melbourne after reaching his first ATP...

LOS ANGELES, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Actress Kirstie Alley described on Wednesday how she fell in love more than 20 years ago with John Travolta, and rejected widespread Hollywood speculation that the "Grease" star is secretly gay. Alley, former star of the 1980s TV comedy "Cheers," told ABC television journalist Barbara Walters that she fell for both Travolta and actor Patrick Swayze in the 1980s, although their romances never got physical....

By Alan Baldwin LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - Federica Pellegrini looked forward to a long Christmas vacation, weekends skiing in the mountains and taking the time to learn English after surrendering her Olympic 200 metres freestyle title on Tuesday. The Italian plans to take a year out to recharge her batteries after failing to bring to the London Olympic pool the sort of form that made her world champion and record holder in the distance. She finished...

By Alan Baldwin LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - Federica Pellegrini looked forward to a long Christmas vacation, weekends skiing in the mountains and taking the time to learn English after surrendering her Olympic 200 metres freestyle title on Tuesday. The Italian plans to take a year out to recharge her batteries after failing to bring to the London Olympic pool the sort of form that made her world champion and record holder in the distance. She finished...